You obtain composites by superposition of transparent pictures ( on Photoshop ) of different people.
It turns out that beauty is the result of average of faces. You can see this on these pictures. It’s a mathematic fact. In another way, beauty is the result of the gold number. I don’t know if average of faces and gold number are the same way.
( sorry for my english, I’m french )

Well most of them get the surgery in their teens before they’re famous, so probably after surgery, unless they are grabbing images of children. XD I will expect to see the typical sharper facial features that I see in famous Koreans with surgery.

I didn’t think she would look much different from the Japanese and Chinese one, especially considering how much cosmetic surgery Koreans get on their eyes and sometimes noses, they would probably look identical, so it was not worth the effort.

jealous much? haha, you know when japan took over korea, they raped the beautiful and now THEY look korean. so get it straight silly~! oh and HELL YES korea gets surgery… but uh JAPAN GETS ALOT MORE, im talken number one in surgery….look it up if you dont believe me. so yeah, get it [Edited]
My post was edited by the moderator because I was raised by barbarians and unable to communicate without being insulting.

Actually Lina’s logic doesn’t make sense. If Japanese men raped Korean women, then wouldn’t the Koreans produce children that looked Japanese? Because the physical traits of the conquerors would be dominant…

Editor Edit: No.

Only 250,000 Norman French conquered the England in 1066, out of a population of millions.

Even if everyone of those men raped and Anglo-Saxon woman, it is highly unlikely they would strongly affect the overall genome. You just don’t need that many armed organized men to subdue a population. Due Ukrainians and Russians look like Mongolians? Do Iranians? They were all conquered by Turko-Mongols. Yes, some in those populations have some “Mongolic features” but the majority definitely do not. Do most Chinese look Mongol or Manchu? I would say no, although there are some who do.

Actually, russians do have a lot of asian genes. not just from the mongol invasion but from being literally IN asia. your female sample seems to have very nordic features which might be original slavic but not very common nowadays. because of the overall mixing, most people in russia have dark hair and dark eyes. some of my family is from sibera and we’ve had mongol anscestors – some of my relatives do have asian features. russia is too big and contains too many republics to simply say it hasn’t been affected by any other nationalities…

Normans weren’t French, and as the article makes clear, English aren’t Anglo-saxons. 250,000 Normans sounds way too high – I think that’s the D-Day invasion – they only had small boats in those days! The numbers I’ve seen suggest 20,000 or so.

…and the Slavs in what is now Ukraine warred and intermarried with Kipchak nomads (Polovtsi in Ukrainian) for many hundred years, so that even the descriptions of female beauty in Ukrainian folk songs differ decidedly from the Slavic type. This would be easy to see in a Ukrainian vs Belorussian composite.

how many faces did you use for this and how did you do it? You should maybe try breaking up 200 or so (for example) photos of (exe) China, into4 or 5 groups, then blending those to see if they look the same

I am wondering whether I could know how/where you obtained the source pictures you used to compute the ‘mean’ (average) face. Where in those countries, and what criteria like age, beauty etc. was sampled? Thanks.

Hey, I just did spend a fair amount of time reading through the comments on the European composites, and I didn’t find that info anywhere. Perhaps you could explain your methodology and thoughts on the subject in a blog post, instead of making people hunt for it? I’d especially be interested in stuff like sample sizes, regions where pics may have been pulled from or biased toward, and so on. Thanks.

Yes,Yes, I know Norman = Norse Man, blah blah, but they had lived there and the upper-classes had especially intermarried with the Gallo-Frankish aristocracy at that point, they were pretty much French with a funny dialect. We can argue about how many invaded, I’m giving you the estimates of a respected expert, but none of that is the point, so I’m not going to argue about off topic B.S., losing the forest for the trees to satisfy some male ego pissing contest. I don’t have time.

20,000 is probably about right for the initial invasion, but what about all those who came afterward…William promised lands, people brought their families, etc.

IN any case, if it was only 20,000 well you more than proved my initial point, so thank you.

I assume that your projects are severely affected by time restrictions, but have you considered taking photos of those in the southern parts of south-east Asia? I’ve notice that you went as far south as Thailand. What about Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia? I have a personal interest in these areas considering that I am currently living in the area. Take for example Singapore: the main populace of the nation consists of three main races Chinese, Malay and Indians. These are “pure” Singaporeans, even though most Chinese originated from mainland China and Indians originated from India (more than five generations ago by this point) and since Singapore is in the Malay peninsula, Malays have pretty much originated from the location. The thing is, being a very cosmopolitan and a small city state of 5 million people, there are a myriad of different looks. A point to note: there are an increasing number of immigrants in the country, most of them who have been here for at least a couple of generations. If you want to find an uncountable number of different looks and try to make them “average” Singapore might be an interesting challenge for you.

Yes I’ve considered it. Please see the European Composite thread. There you can see my methodology. Those nations that you discuss are quite difficult for various reasons. And I honestly don’t think there is a gigantic difference between Malays and Filipinos, maybe slight due to greater Chinese and Euro ancestry in Filipnos compared to the more “pure” ethnic Malays in Malaysia. I expect Indonesia would show quite a bit of variation but also demographically difficult and the most time consuming thing is finding good representative pictures. I’m just not interested enough in Indonesia to do that. I’m having problems finding good pictures of Brazilian women (who are not models, porn stars, or primarily European in ancestry…the remainder is the majority of the population, but they are underrepresented on the internet due to their poverty…

Egypt I expect will be worse, especially trying to find pictures of women (many Middle Eastern women do not like being photographed and having their picture put on the net, so I’m sure I will find men and next to no women).

If you want to undertake this task, be my guest. I would be greatly interested in what you come up with. as stated before, I explained my methods in the Euro Thread.

luminescent:
I dont know who you are and what you are talking about buddy. But you definitely very bad know how russian people look alike. You talking crap, seriously. Russia is a big country true, but ethnic russians – the core of nation (like germans in germany, swedes in sweden) who takes 80% of total russian population, came to Siberia, Volga, and Far East from Northwestern and Central Russia (historical russian motherland – territory from Novgorod to Moscow). It was like Englishmen who came to north america or australia, some of them probably mixed with native people, but majority not. I grew up in Siberia, so i know what i am talking about. Check your sources about asian genes in russians again, all modern researchers don’t agree with you.
Average ethnic russian looks like polish or baltic, may be finnish, no wonder that genetic relations of these nations so close. Most common russian hair color light brown or dark ash blond, eyes-color blue or gray. Next common hair color – brown, eye color – green. But again it is not that dark like french for example. Russians also have a lot of natural yellowish blond people, percents out of all population less than in baltic/scandinavia however probably much more than in any other part in europe. More common dark eyed/haired russians could be find in southern russians (kuban region) or in ethnic minorities (buryats, tatars and etc). Southern russians has ties to ukrainians, so they looks similar.
I living in central russia and actually surrounded by light haired and light eyed slavic/nordic girls here, so i have a thing to mediterranean or asian women look because it is really RARE here. And by the way 80% of russian people living literally within european borders (ural mountains). Asian russia a beautiful and largest part of country territory, but because its low population density who majority of ethnic russians, it could be hardly call and indificate whole russia as asia, just like greenland which does not make denmark north america.

Keep in mind that most of our genes have nothing to do with phenotype. You can have various ancient admixture (like Fins) that do not show up in phenotype. Fins look more Nordic than Swedes and Norwegian (at least they are more blond and blue eyed) but they have more Asian genes as well, considerably more, especially East Fins, just like their Russian neighbors. That’s a fact. I can and have supported that.

Read this entire post and look at that charts. Even within the Russian population there are substructures (devisions) because many Northern Russians are Russified Fins, they are not originally Slavs at all. Read your history. Read why Fins want the province in Russia on their border. All those Fins on the Russian side did not disappear. LOL

I could care less what your personal opinion is. I posted evidence to back my statement. If you are not a population genetics expert and you have no scientific findings/literature to add to this blog do not comment here again. If you try to do so I will delete your post.

Dragon Horse:
You probably misunderstood my post. I know my history very well. And i know something about genetics too. Ethnic russians = slavic tribes in general + finno-ugric people admixture + some varangian admixture. It was formed in 9-11 AD around city Novgorod and future Moscow region. About this formed russians i told in my previous post. In 16 AD FORMED ethnic russians start expansion to Volga and Siberia where they rarely mixed with natives, that is why nowadays russia have so many semi-autonomic republic, these people lived there 500 years ago, and they live there now. They wasn’t assimilated and wasn’t killed.

So ethnic russians who live in Central/Northwestern russia now looks and genetically the same like ethnic russian in Siberia. Everybody can check it by social networks. That was i meant in answer to luminescent.
As for europeanizated “asian” N1c1 genes which baltic people, finns, and russian shared together, i never denied it. I deny big influence of other traditional asian haplogroups.
Cheers

Arent alot of japs mixed with other races ?
all asians look the same anyways

On this site we call them Japanese.

As far as “MIXED” if you mean ancient migrations from the Asian mainland, then yes. If you mean mixed with a lot of people of European, African, etc ancestry in recent history, definitely not (on average).

And no, all Asians do not look a like.

If you write something else stupid on this site it will be deleted. Educate yourself and come back when you can say something useful to someone else. Thanks.

One more vote for Indonesians and Malaysians. They are the largest population group in SE Asia and have a diversity of genes so it would be interesting to see what the average is.
By the way I think you’re picking out the samples by yourself instead of getting a large random sample? Maybe you should try Facebook. A lot of Indonesians are on there.

Neat! I want to see average Indonesian man and woman too. But we do have our extremes in our vast archipelago. Brown-skinned Autronesian speakers in the west, chinky-eyed yellow-skinned tribes in the north, and darker Melanesians in the east.

hi..just discover this..i think this is quite interesting and so impressed by all your facts and explanation.can you analyze someone’s originality by looking at their face?as for example,if you see my face can you conclude where am i come from?many people always get confuse when see my face..either indian,italian or brazilian.. :-)

Aww you missed out the other southeast asian from Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and SIngapore. I really would love to see my nationality in it too. Coz not many knows the existence of Brunei in the western countries.

Why many people think that avarage Chinese , Korean and Japanese looks similar!? Nothing more wrong -except that the Chinese want to be valued more highly, then will say that there is no difference between the Chinese and Japanese.
—Avarage Chinese (I’m talking about natural people, not about the ‘stars’ after plastic surgery or people with makeup.) have round shaped faces (more adipose tissue on the face, ), wider noses, more flat faces, totaly different body building (bones). I know, I know there are many regions, but the characteristics prevail and more probable is to make mistake between —Japanese and Korean than the Japanese and Chinese.
Japanese usually have sharper facial features, narrow lips. (more like Koreans but not same) .
—Korean have sharpest shape of face (the so- called square face with prominent zygomatic bones) narrow eyes, outer corners of the eyes are raised upward. Japanese outer corners of the eyes fall down. Chinese, Korean and Japanese have totaly different eyebrows shape, body hair, skin color… I guarantee that no professional anthropologist will say that Japanese people are like Chinese people.
I can say more and more about the differences in morphology between these ethnic types.

Some wise guy said that the Japanese raped Korean women, and therefore look similar.
You forgot to add my “friend”, that Koreans routinely kidnap Japanese children (don’t open your eyes wide! Yes yes man!! It happening even now!). You probably have seen some examples of movie stars or musicians from Japan. You should know that they are not Japanese at all. 90% of them are native Koreans, using Japanese names. This is a very popular and the Japanese have to wonder why they do it. Koreans were, are and for sure long time they will be a serious problem in Japan.
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About Russians. Someone asked if the Russians they look like Mongols. No. It is true that in Russia there are many regions where people look like the yellow race, but they do not call themselves Russians and would be a mistake to call them so. There are minorities of Mongolia, Manchuria, Kazakhstan… Typical Russians are Slavics nation a little bit mixed with Scandinavians. I’m Pole with Mongolian and Japanese roots and I look like typical Pole. I can tell honest! we can see clearly differences between Poles and Russians. They look different than we.
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Looking at these pictures- allegedly of average people from countries chosen by yourself, I have serious doubts about the veracity of these types. As for ethnic types, no one is able to deceive me ;) For example, you created avarage Filipinos. I just can see selected photos of movie stars or models. In fact, the typical Filipino is not so attractive. All these pictures are seriously idealized. You should add that you created idealized people.
———-that’s all for now——– :D:D:)
Regards.

Why many people think that avarage Chinese , Korean and Japanese looks similar!? Nothing more wrong -except that the Chinese want to be valued more highly, then will say that there is no difference between the Chinese and Japanese.
—Avarage Chinese (I’m talking about natural people, not about the ‘stars’ after plastic surgery or people with makeup.) have round shaped faces (more adipose tissue on the face, ), wider noses, more flat faces, totaly different body building (bones). I know, I know there are many regions, but the characteristics prevail and more probable is to make mistake between —Japanese and Korean than the Japanese and Chinese.
Japanese usually have sharper facial features, narrow lips. (more like Koreans but not same) .
—Korean have sharpest shape of face (the so- called square face with prominent zygomatic bones) narrow eyes, outer corners of the eyes are raised upward. Japanese outer corners of the eyes fall down. Chinese, Korean and Japanese have totaly different eyebrows shape, body hair, skin color… I guarantee that no professional anthropologist will say that Japanese people are like Chinese people.
I can say more and more about the differences in morphology between these ethnic types.

Some wise guy said that the Japanese raped Korean women, and therefore look similar.
You forgot to add my “friend”, that Koreans routinely kidnap Japanese children (don’t open your eyes wide! Yes yes man!! It happening even now!). You probably have seen some examples of movie stars or musicians from Japan. You should know that they are not Japanese at all. 90% of them are native Koreans, using Japanese names. This is a very popular and the Japanese have to wonder why they do it. Koreans were, are and for sure long time they will be a serious problem in Japan.
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About Russians. Someone asked if the Russians they look like Mongols. No. It is true that in Russia there are many regions where people look like the yellow race, but they do not call themselves Russians and would be a mistake to call them so. There are minorities of Mongolia, Manchuria, Kazakhstan… Typical Russians are Slavics nation a little bit mixed with Scandinavians. I’m Pole with Mongolian and Japanese roots and I look like typical Pole. I can tell honest! we can see clearly differences between Poles and Russians. They look different than we.
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Looking at these pictures- allegedly of average people from countries chosen by yourself, I have serious doubts about the veracity of these types. As for ethnic types, no one is able to deceive me ;) For example, you created avarage Filipinos. I just can see selected photos of movie stars or models. In fact, the typical Filipino is not so attractive. All these pictures are seriously idealized. You should add that you created idealized people.
———-that’s all for now——–:) :D:)
Regards

Unwise for Koreans attempt to bully or put down Japanese, remembering Japan’s track record for avenging enemies & genocide. BTW, longest life of women on earth is 86. Rock on Japan, endurance is on your side. :)

I think mongolian woman face was yeah, pretty realistic. But male face isn’t the average mongolian male face. it’s too Eastern Asian. We are mix of turkic and asiatic people.
I have bigger eyes than the average mongolian female. I’m considered as really attractive asian female when Im outside of Mongolia. In Mongolia, I feel pretty normal.

Chinese ethnicity is very very diverse. I’d say North East Chinese and Koreans do look quite familiar whereas Southern Chinese usually have bigger eyes and features, well no surprise, look just closer to other South East peoples. This is just one of the most generalized difference within the so-called big umbrella of the Chinese ethnicity. I for one from Hong Kong and I look nothing like a typical Han Chinese(and I consider myself Hongkonger NOT Chinese)

I was wondering if you would give me permission to use these facial composites as a part of my science project. I am a highschool student attending a school in Manhattan. I don’t know how else I could contact you to ask for permission to post these photos… I didn’t see an email… but I would like to get in touch with you if these photos could be available for use in my project. I am perfectly willing to cite you as a source in the project, and you will receive full credit for the use of your facial composites. I am somewhat unwilling to post my email here; is there some way I could contact you in order to receive this information that would not be through email? Some way I could get citation information privately?

Oh and btw, Koreans and Japanese, can you take your fight somewhere else? I’m married to Japanese and I’m at the brink of divorce because I’m so sick and tired of hearing “Korea-is-this-Japan-is-that”! God!

I have no difficulty believing about the average = beautiful/handsome people. I already read a scientific article about it some time ago. But just to be clear, I mean average of facial features, not average people in the street.

Sone gong, which primitive nation are you from? you must be one of those nationals who are bitterly jealous of the advanced culture, infrastructure and nice looking people of that country. You poor thing.

My continent doesn’t even get it’s own page. The many Polynesian, Melanesian, and Micronesian peoples are obviously different to one another and to Asians – even to the most lazy of observers – but I’m most surprised by the glaring absence of Aboriginal peoples of Australia considering their early divergence and geographic separation from other peoples. I don’t suppose there’s any chance of this being rectified at any time? #MaoriNotSamoan

Excellent work! I am a mix of Burmese/English/Portuguese/Armenian and always wondered which country I look closest to and can see from this I have very similar features to the Burmese average.
This is such an interesting study and work of art, I’m glad I’ve stumbled across it!

I’m disappointed there wasn’t an Average Hawaiian Male and Female. I assumed the Hawaiians would be included because Pacific Islander is in the title. This is rather interesting though! Would you consider adding an Average Hawaiian Male and Female, please?